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Are physical books becoming an anachronism to millennials?

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I am going to begin tutoring in the AP subjects that I took, 6 of them..

These days, do kids expect an actual book text? Will I look like a nimrod if I don't have a digital textbook?
I'm going to buy this book to get me fully back to speed. here
How can it be digital? Not all kids can afford tablets,right?
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Most of them will and thy probably appreciate the fact they don't have to spend hundreds on books.
Only in some areas.

Street directories, phone books and newspapers are all pretty much gone now.

Novels, magazines and "coffee table books" will still be around in a century.

If you publish a textbook in .PDF format, then students can read it on a cellphone, tablet, PC Kindle or whatever. If they are really poor, they may need to borrow some device, or use a PC in a library, but something should be available to pretty much anyone in 2018.   They could even print it out if they preferred.
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This new question grading format is lame. The selections don't work. The "yes! This is my solution" highlights, but cant be selected.
What is everyone doing now?

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Another thing to teach about books is also not related to the media. Possibly, the children (and up) should be given the questions: "Why learning through books is important? What is the inherent 'quality' of a book that other media do not have?"
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A total nimrod redesigned the question grading. The grading options don't remain selected, and there is no 'finished' button. wth?
@Wakeup: Yes. This is the symptom of a sick society -- making illegal everything that you do not pay for. And to get help, you need to pay for it, because the law is so complex that an ordinal person cannot know it.
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